The singer Henri from returned to the disappearance of his first child. A drama that occurred when he was trying to break into the world of music.
At 84, Henri from the same time has become a timeless figure in children’s song, adored as well by the little ones and their parents and grandparents. Behind the joyful nursery rhymes that have rocked generations, however, hides a story marked by a personal drama. In a video interview with the media Neothe author of Little Charlotte gave himself up without detour to the disappearance of his first child.
Henri as soon as this disappearance is shaken: “We lost it after six days“”
While he was still a young singer for adults, Henri from a devastating intimate test: the death of his baby. “”When I lost my first child, who was called Julien, we lost it after 6 days …“, he said, without specifying the cause. In a previous interview for The morninghe clarified having taken matters into his own hands before his wife returned from maternity, “I hid everything: little clothes, toys … it was terrible. “
At that time, there was nothing to predict that he would one day turn to children’s song. But the birth of his two other children, his son Pierrick and his daughter Camille, will upset her artistic journey. “”I wanted with my little author’s knowledge of writing to him (in Pierrick, when he was 5 years old and his sister was born, editor’s note) A song he understands the meaning and which he can sing“, he said to Neo. This is how one of her very first children’s songs was born: My little sister is pretty.
Henri from a great financial difficulty: “Very, very poor“”
Before knowing success, Henri has gone through years of financial precariousness. When the singer settled in Paris with his wife Marie-Josée, they then lived in very modest conditions: “A bedroom of 9 m² in a rotten corner (…) We went to the cheapest stores, we bought very little meat (…) We were very poor. Very, very poor.“Then to tell with tenderness a habit on Saturday:”We went to Saint-Michel, we bought an ice cream for two.“”
His wife, Marie-Josée, was his pillar. While he sang in front of the cabarets without real success, it was she who made the home live in part: “That was a disaster for several years, but fortunately, my wife, who found little jobs a little more serious, brought something home to eat“. Henri as soon as he is aware that he owes a lot to his wife.”I think that without her, I would never have had the courage to continue“He confessed.
